Not that I have anything against The Silver Searcher, but I've been using the following script I wrote for years, and it is even faster than ag from my very rec

Not that I have anything against The Silver Searcher, but I've been using the following script I wrote for years, and it is even faster than ag from my very recent limited experience: #!/bin/sh -u dir="$1" shift # This doesn't work unless we have GNU find (for the -xtype option): gfind "$dir" \ \( -type f -or -xtype f \) \ \( -name "*.[ct]xx" \ -or -name "*.[CchH]" \ -or -name "*.py" \ -or -name "*.java" \ -or -name "*.scala" \ -or -name "*.pde" \ -or -name "*.js" \ -or -name "*.xml" \ \) \ -print0 \ | xargs -0 egrep ${1+"$@"}